πέρκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *farwō (“colour”) and Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “dusky”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pér.kos/ → /ˈper.kos/ → /ˈper.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pér.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈper.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈper.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈper.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈper.kos/

Noun

πέρκος • (pérkos) m (genitive πέρκου); second declension

1. A kind of hawk

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πέρκος; τοῦ πέρκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πέρκος ho pérkos	τὼ πέρκω tṑ pérkō	οἱ πέρκοι hoi pérkoi
Genitive	τοῦ πέρκου toû pérkou	τοῖν πέρκοιν toîn pérkoin	τῶν πέρκων tôn pérkōn
Dative	τῷ πέρκῳ tôi pérkōi	τοῖν πέρκοιν toîn pérkoin	τοῖς πέρκοις toîs pérkois
Accusative	τὸν πέρκον tòn pérkon	τὼ πέρκω tṑ pérkō	τοὺς πέρκους toùs pérkous
Vocative	πέρκε pérke	πέρκω pérkō	πέρκοι pérkoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

• “πέρκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέρκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette